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THOMAS FRASER VAN LUVEN, OF KINGSTON, ONTARIO, ASSIGNOR TO ALFRED BROWN,OF GANANOQUE, CANADA.

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SPBQIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,624, dated January13, 1885. Application filed September 6, H 84. (No model.) Patented inCanada July 18, 1884, No. 19,842.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS FRASER VAN LUVEN,a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Kingston, in county ofFrontenac and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fences, (for which I have obtained a patent inCanada, dated July 18, 1884, No. 19,812,) and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation of a fence constructed inaccordance with my invention, showing the wire-straining device,connected to the board rail of one of the intermediate fence-sections.Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar view of thewire-straining device, on an enlarged scale, showing it connected to theboard rail and to the fence-wire by the perforated plate; and Fig. 4 isa detail view in perspective of the straining device.

The present invention has relation to certain new and usefulimprovements in the construetion of wire fences.

The object of the invention is to construct thefence partly of barbedwire connected to the usual posts and partly of intervening sectionsformed of board rails, whereby the fence will readily adapt itself to asuitable device detachably connected to one of the board rails of theintervening section by which each of the several barbed wires may beconveniently strained and tightened.

The invention therefore consists in a fence constructed substantially asshown and described and hereinafter claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the barbed wires of thefence, strung on the posts B at the usual distance apart and in sectionsof any desirable length, said wires being held to the posts loosely bystaples, in

the ordinary manner.

At the termination of the wires A. are posts 0, which are connected byboard rails I) of any preferred length, and of number to correspond withthe number of wires used, the rails being on line therewith, as shown.The ends or extremities of each wire A have suitably connected to themrectangular perforated plates E, which are seated in horizontal slits orcuts sawed in the side of the posts 0 and held between it and the boardrails.

I have shown one of many devices that may be used with my improved fenceto strain the wires, which consists of a suitable block, F, preferablybifurcated or slotted, as shown, in which is located a straininglevcr,G, pivoted to said block in any convenient manner. The lever G ispreferably provided with a head, a, of'circular or other form, to whichis attached one end of a wire, chain, or strap, b, the opposite or freeend thereof having a hook, c, or other convenient means by which a conncction is made between the strap 1) and the perforated plate 16. Theblock F is so constructed as to admit of its ready attachment to any oneof the board rails D, and also of its removal when the 'fence-wire hasbeen sufficiently strained and tightened. One of the many means forattaining this end which may be employed is a pin, d, east with the heador block F, to enter holes 6 in the rails.

In straining the wires of the fence the block F, with its lever G, isfirst connected to that one of the board rails which is on line with thewire to be strained, after which the hook c of the strap b is insertedin one of the perforations of the rectangular plate E, and by bearing onthe lever the strap will wind on the rounded or circular head a and pullthe perforated plate toward it, and thus tighten the wire, which is heldin its tightened condition by inserting a pin or key, f, in theperforation nearest to the post.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the sections of a wire fence, of interveningpanels of board rails, the posts of which have horizontal slits orgrooves corresponding in number to the fence wires, perforated platessliding in said slits or In testimony that I claim the above I havegrooves, one being connected to the extremity hereunto subscribed myname in the presence of each wire, and means, substantially as deof twowitnesses.

scribed, for holding said plates in position THOMAS FRASER VAN LUVEN.after the desired tension has been given to the Witnesses:

Wires, substantially as and for the purpose set 1 F. ELKINGTON,

forth.

K JOHN AsHLEY.

